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Quote by Jonathan Swift
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age. - Jonatha

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age. – Jonathan Swift

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Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybodys face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. – Jonathan Swift

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Satire
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Jonathan Swift
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When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. – Jonathan Swift

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Conformity
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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions. – Robert Green Ingersoll

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Age

No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages. – Judy Biggert

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Age

At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment. – Benjamin Franklin

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We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so its not a surprise that all of us are in some form of the arts. – Spike Lee

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Age

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You know, for 300 years its been kind of the same. There are restaurants in New Orleans that the menu hasnt changed in 125 years, so how is one going to change or evolve the food? – Emeril Lagasse

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Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony. – Lionel Trilling

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It sounds extraordinary but it?s a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading. – Mary Archer

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My kids have moved more in their twenties, you know, than my parents have moved in nearly 40-something years of marriage before they died. So theres a part of me that laments what we have lost, and that is a sense of community. – Mike Huckabee

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